Hell and high water: Life in 'the world's most miserable country' keeps getting worse

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Electricity Minister Luis Motta works a wooden stick into a crack on the ground of previously submerged land during an inspection of the Guri Dam in Bolivar state, Venezuela, April 11, 2016.

Venezuela has already earned the dubious title of "world's most miserable country," and while that moniker is based strictly on economic conditions, as measured by the Cato Institute, recent weeks have seen the country shriveled by drought and inundated by flooding, proving that both working and living in Venezuela are increasingly difficult tasks.